Katia Golovko

Ekaterina Golovko is a researcher, writer, and photographer living in Dakar, Senegal, and Bologna, Italy. Initially trained as a linguist, she received a PhD in Linguistics from Bologna University (2010). Adopting a socio-linguistic approach, she is interested in variation as an intrinsic phenomenon of language and the surrounding world. Building on this, she has turned to photography, research on oral cultures, archives, and the more-than-human, emphasizing variation and relationality.

She has published texts on ethnographic museums, alternative archives, and oral culture. Her photography has appeared online and in print. In 2022, she exhibited her photographs during the Dak’art Biennale at the Hotel de Ville de Dakar. In 2024 his multimedia installation 'Ecologies de la Brousse - Aadaajii laɗɗe' was exhibited at the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art in Dakar, Senegal. The second iteration of this exhibition was presented at Officina Margherita in Bologna (2025).

She was part of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s The Whole Life project (2019-2022), where her collective ‘Archive for the Eleventh Hour’ convened a seminar on sonic archives and participated in the final exhibition The Whole Life. Archives and Imaginaries.